“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I hate that question and believe it should never be asked, especially since there is only one appropriate answer: “my True Self”.
Thank you! I took the photo last March on a day filled with mist. I noticed the amazing atmospheric conditions on the way home from the gym, ran into the house as soon as Dad put the car in park, asked Stella to change into red and black, grabbed the train case and my camera, and the two of us headed out.
I've never understood how to answer that question, and that's because I felt that an answer was owed. I hadn't considered that it's an inappropriate question and I generally wouldn't, in the moment.
"My True Self", as you suggested, or "none of your effing business" are valid and good responses, as is no response.
Good observations, and thank you for your response. I often forget, in my Psychosynthesis coach training sessions, that I always have the option to decline sharing (it was unequivocally stated at the beginning of the course). Why the forgetting? Because we are programmed from childhood to set aside what we need or want—what is right for us—in order to please someone else, and for some of us, that meant ANYONE else. I would go so far as to say that we (99.9% of us, anyway) are programmed from the earliest age to deny ourselves and become alienated from our own Souls, because somebody else demands that we somehow meet their conscious and unconscious (unmet) needs and desires.
Formed/programmed to accept the question and the authority of the asker as valid, *and* to try to answer the question honestly in the context in which it was given.
I've always been astonished by politicians, sales people, business people who simply don't answer a plain question and turn around with a response from their own agenda.
I like the metaphor of being handed a bathing suit and told to walk on stage.
Also, I love that photo. Did you take that recently? Using a dress mannequin?
Thank you! I took the photo last March on a day filled with mist. I noticed the amazing atmospheric conditions on the way home from the gym, ran into the house as soon as Dad put the car in park, asked Stella to change into red and black, grabbed the train case and my camera, and the two of us headed out.
Thank you.
I've never understood how to answer that question, and that's because I felt that an answer was owed. I hadn't considered that it's an inappropriate question and I generally wouldn't, in the moment.
"My True Self", as you suggested, or "none of your effing business" are valid and good responses, as is no response.
Good observations, and thank you for your response. I often forget, in my Psychosynthesis coach training sessions, that I always have the option to decline sharing (it was unequivocally stated at the beginning of the course). Why the forgetting? Because we are programmed from childhood to set aside what we need or want—what is right for us—in order to please someone else, and for some of us, that meant ANYONE else. I would go so far as to say that we (99.9% of us, anyway) are programmed from the earliest age to deny ourselves and become alienated from our own Souls, because somebody else demands that we somehow meet their conscious and unconscious (unmet) needs and desires.
Yes.
Formed/programmed to accept the question and the authority of the asker as valid, *and* to try to answer the question honestly in the context in which it was given.
I've always been astonished by politicians, sales people, business people who simply don't answer a plain question and turn around with a response from their own agenda.